Mathematica help crashes X-windows on Linux
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- Subject: [mg10278] Mathematica help crashes X-windows on Linux
- From: rodmur@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dale Harris)
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 05:07:27 -0500
- Organization: California State University, Chico
I'm using Mathematica 3.0 on Linux. Currently I'm able to crash my X-windows server when I go to look up some information in help (I think I was looking up some information on the N[] command). I use MetroX 3.1.8, on a Matrox Millennium card, kernel 2.0.32, libc 5.4.33. Has anyone else seen this bug? Anyone have suggestions how I can get out of crash without reseting my machine (the usual Cntl+Alt+F? doesn't seem to work)? I seem to lose any contact with the machine through my keyboard, the display goes black. I could probably kill the X server if I could get to a shell, logging in remotely isn't really an option (suppose I could get a dumb terminal for problems like this). I'll probably go ahead and open a case on this with Mathematica tech support. Talking about the Libc, is there any development in Mathematica for support of GNU libc 2, if there isn't, there should be. For the folks not quite aware of linux, the next stable releases will be using a new C library (GNU libc 2), more information can be found at: http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dale Harris <rodmur@csuchico.edu> PGP KeyID: E26EC5FD Chico State home of the NCAA Div. II National Baseball Champs! |+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|+|